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Proposed Sustainable Urban Mobility Transportation Plan

The Urban Mobility Design is city's comprehensive resource on street design guidelines, policies, and
processes. It aggregates a broad range of resources from nationally recognized engineering and design
guidelines. It supplements rather than replaces existing engineering and environmental standards,
requirements, or guidelines

Nowadays, many cities in developed countries are now trying to recover from the cardominated
development to public transport and non-motorized transport. This approach has been called in some
cases a “road diet” or “complete streets” (the first is one where space for cars is explicitly reduced,
the second emphasizes the need for streets where all road users are catered to). Sustainable Urban
Mobility Plan is essentially a transport masterplan looking at the way people move around by different
modes of transport. These include walking, cycling, bus, train, taxi, motorcycle, car, van and Heavy
Goods Vehicle (HGV). To develop the most effective Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, is essential that
the public and stakeholders are involved in its development to ensure that the end result is something
which brings them the greatest benefit . The following principles are required for a successful SUMP:

– Ensuring the transport system is accessible to all;

– Improving the safety and security of its users;

– Reducing air and noise pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption;

– Improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the transportation of people, and;

– Enhancing the attractiveness and quality of the urban environment.

Public transport and non-motorized transport essentially reduces the problem of congestion to a lack
of sufficient road space and a need for better traffic flow. Policies for more and more road construction
have clearly failed to cope with ever increasing demand from rapid motorization, resulting in a vicious
circle as depictedin Figure . This cycle shows how the increase of infrastructure to alleviate travel
demand will have apparently positive consequences in the short term, but some months later there
will be a much greater congestion than before, thus increasing the problem rather than solving it.
Figure . Vicious Circle of Car-Oriented Transport Development Non-Motorized Transport as walking
and cycling (and all other modes that have wheels but no engine such as pedicabs and freight
tricycles), as well as related infrastructure, policies and education. These modes have been greatly
promoted recently due to their great 5 6 benefits for reducing transport emissions and for improved
human health . While encouraging a shift to non-motorized transport modes, however, the report
acknowledges that such modes are best suited for local travel and that motorized transport (in
particular public transport) has an important role while travelling longer distances . However, in many
(if not most) countries there is a considerable stigma against public transport. The privatecar is often
seen as the most desirable travel option. There is thus a need to enhance the acceptability of public
transport systems. More needs to be done to increase reliability and efficiency of public transport
services and to make these services more secure and safe. Also, bicycle can be a good solution for
problems of traffic and pollution side by side public transport, the purpose of bicycle lanes is to clearly
divide the path of bicyclists from the path of motorists on a mixed roadway in a way that is easily
recognizable to both. As opposed to separated cycle tracks, bicycle lanes force bicyclists and motorists
to share the same road and thus must be carefully designed to be safe and enjoyable for cyclists

These results will then be used to answer the the problems of urban mobility for that area to make a
decisive conclusion for design of the sustainable transportation. Finally, propsal sustainable
transportation specifics to those who might be concerned with and interested in the topic will be
suggested. Specifically, analysis was made to find an efficient methods and standards to solve
problems and challenges of urban mobility as well

Figure Vicious Circle of Car-Oriented Transport Development

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